This week’s topic for Top Ten Tuesday (hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl) is: “Destination Titles (titles with name of places in them. These places can be real or fictional).”
Here are ten books with real cities, countries or islands in the title. These are all books that I’ve read and reviewed on my blog. I would have liked to have been able to represent all of the continents but I couldn’t quite manage it – I had plenty of titles with European destinations to choose from, but not as many for other parts of the world.
1. A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
2. The Lost Book of Salem by Katherine Howe
3. China by Edward Rutherfurd
4. To Calais, in Ordinary Time by James Meek
5. Death in Zanzibar by M.M. Kaye
6. The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie
7. The Mauritius Command by Patrick O’Brian
8. Night Train to Marrakech by Dinah Jefferies
9. The Glassblower of Murano by Marina Fiorato
10. Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada
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Have you read any of these? What other books with destination titles can you think of?
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Great list of titles. I think all of Edward Rutherfurd’s books have destination titles, don’t they?
Yes, they do! And all of Kaye’s Death In… books as well. I could have picked any of them.
I loved both A Gentleman in Moscow and Death in Zanzibar! I should have put those two on my own TTT list today because I own them both. 😀
Yes, they are both great books!
Death in Zanzibar sounds like a fascinating mix of mystery and adventure. I’m always on the lookout for new reads that transport me to different places.
Thanks for sharing these titles!
I loved Death in Zanzibar! There are five other books in that series, all set in different countries, and all of them are great.
I haven’t read any of these, but I really want to read A Gentleman in Moscow, because I’ve loved Towles other work.
I did my own thing this week: https://franlaniado.wordpress.com/2024/11/12/top-ten-tuesday-light-academia/
A Gentleman in Moscow is the only book I’ve read by Towles but I really enjoyed it and would like to read more of his books.
I really liked Rules of Civility and The Lincoln Highway.
Hi Helen, I’m afraid I haven’t read any of these and I am struggling to think of any novels I have read with destinations in the title, well any real destinations anyway 😅
Blessings, Jessica 💌
Maybe fictional destinations would have been easier!
I’ve read (or part read) a few of these including To Calais In Ordinary Time which I had high hopes for but just couldn’t get along with because of the language. In the end it irritated me so much that I put the book down. Probably not the effect the author was aiming for!
I didn’t like it either. It could have been a great book, but the language was a big distraction and kept pulling me out of the story.